... suddenly that she had great gifts as a speaker. I have already said that her voice was rather remarkable, and I imagine that in speaking the power of emphasis without strain must be a great asset of hers. A critic might say she knows too many words to express ...

... chief pal for many years has been a Bulldog rejoicing in the name of Muggins. He is now six years old, and it does indeed speak volumes for his intelligence and general character that Miss Denyer still writes, Next to a Bulldog I'd choose an Afghan as ...

... poetry. Although she has only one language of inspiration, for she still thinks only in her native Finnish, Mme. Kallas also speaks Estonian, Swedish, German, French and English the last acquired during her four years' residence in London. A GIRL GUIDE ...

... delusion of pub lishers 1) everyone was talking about. But here Denham got left. Novels were still above her. Clothes you can speak of a little, whether you understand them or not, but unless you are more adept than Denham in the social arts, you must have ...

... at the same moment, and cannoned in the process. Ella's greeting was wondrous cordial. It all but made me jump. Generally speaking I am somewhat of a pis-aller. As governess to her mother thirty years ago I must expect to be a pis-aller. I do expect it ...

... has its own rules, its own technique. Of course, it's as easy as winking to be kissed in the dark at the back door, so to speak. But to gain love and to keep it requires a subtlety amount ing almost to genius. Love is blind, so they say. But, although ...

... encircles the crown. Furthermore, there is a splendid collec tion of crinoline hats which have come hot foot from Paris generally speaking, they are trimmed with the gayest of flowers. It may be that the crowns are entirely composed of single large blooms, or ...

... views on the subject were balanced and good, but there was onepoi: which I should have very much liked to have tackled him. Speakings! open-road trap, set to catch motorists exceeding the twenty mile link spoke of it as unnecessary and, I think, he said vexatious ...

... Hence the modern partiality for stage spectacles. THERE is far too much talking in the theatres, says a critic. Someone should speak to our dramatists about it. ONE half of Mars is said to be dry. And in the other half no doubt they have Prohibition. A MUSIC ...

... removing all the furniture from the sitting-room of my small fiat four babv-grands could be squeezed into it, metaphorically speaking, with the help of a shoe-horn. The percussion could go in the bed-room. Perfect. And then I sud denly remembered certain ...

... to the Secret of the Central Fund, 41, Denison House, Vausl Bridge Road, S.W.I. The President, Lieut.-G Sir Wm. Furse, will speak on the work oil old-established charity which cares for pen discharged from sanatoria, and has establishe workshop for fancy ...

... no doubt that the greatest feature of this year's jubilee meeting at Wimbledon will be the women's play, for, rela tively speaking, there is a far stronger entry than in the men's events, and in fact I very much doubt if there has ever been as good a one ...